There are several excellent lists of interactive fiction available, such as the Top 50. I was however unable to find one that made use of the large amount of ratings on IFDB. Being a sucker for rankings, I decided to create one using an IMDb style Bayes estimator. Here it is, based on what I scraped from IFDB a few hours ago:

Only two I'm unfamiliar with are#20 Flexible Survival (2010): "An erotic survival game set after a bioterrorism attack."#95 Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma (2010): "Gus is a smug numbskull who doesn't deserve to have the insult battle championship. You are here to take the title from him with the best yo momma insults there are. You just have to find them first."

Hmmm, all the ratings were cast within the same five-day-or-so period. I guess the IFDB entry was announced at their place and they flocked over to rate it highly.

Ah well. I don't think anything can be done about it. It does leave us with Flexible Survival being, apparently, higher rated than A Mind Forever Voyaging and Babel and Endless, Nameless and well, that does irk me a bit. But this is only a bit of fun anyway, so.

Flexible Survival is a pretty amazing achievement--lots of people try to implement a massive RPG in text but they're the only ones who've done it. And people who don't like it probably don't play enough to rate it.

It does seem like the people who rate it highly pretty much don't rate anything else, which is unfortunate, but it's not like there's an official award they're gaming or something.

Heh, I didn't mean to downsay FS *quite* that much. It's an amazing achievement, just like you said. I am just a bit uncomfortable that a rating exists where it gets to be higher rated than a bunch of other games.

Before anyone says it, yes, I am perfectly aware that this is a purely mechanical rating extracted from a rating system in a database where there are umpteen variables. I know it's a curio-only list. Regardless, I'm still sad Aisle didn't make the cut. I'm just an emotional guy

EDIT - Hmmmm. All the information on IFDB on FS mentions RPG and erotica (closer to porn, but ah well), but it does not mention the significant fact that all of the sexual encounters are yiffy in nature. Wouldn't it be relevant? I can add it myself, but I figured I might as well ask.

EDIT - Hmmmm. All the information on IFDB on FS mentions RPG and erotica (closer to porn, but ah well), but it does not mention the significant fact that all of the sexual encounters are yiffy in nature. Wouldn't it be relevant? I can add it myself, but I figured I might as well ask.

I don't think it's necessary to detail the erotic aspects of an erotic game in the IFDB. (Other people may disagree, of course.)

_________________Carolyn VanEseltine* Supporting IF authors, players, and communities through technology at IFTF* Games and game dev writing at Sibyl Moon Games

So, there's no need to differentiate a game about consensual sex from a game about rape? Or a game that is specifically about BSDM? Or beastiality? Or scat? All of these fall neatly under "erotica"?

I mean, these days there are trigger words for everything. If there's one place where a bit of fair warning seems reasonable is in an adult game with specialised tastes, whatever those tastes may be.

If you were certain of the answer, what did you ask the question for? Go ahead and make the change if you think it's important.

Also - based on your examples, your definition of "trigger warning" appears to be incorrect, as a trigger warning doesn't mean "Some people will find this content icky." A trigger warning means "This content will be actively harmful to a significant enough subsection of the population that we are notifying that subsection of the population about the content involved." (See http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Trigger_warning for a detailed explanation.)

<moderator> If you'd like to discuss trigger warnings further, please open a new thread in General and Off-Topic, as it would be off-topic for this thread. </moderator>

_________________Carolyn VanEseltine* Supporting IF authors, players, and communities through technology at IFTF* Games and game dev writing at Sibyl Moon Games

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